Objective: Senior Solaris Administrator

Professional Profile:

o Dedicated systems professional with over 15 years of significant and

progressive experience in systems support and administration, project and

task management and disaster recovery planning

o Competent decision-maker who can exercise judgment and make strategic

assessments in a rapidly changing

environment

o Excellent communicator accustomed to high-level of user interaction, firm

commitment to ultimate customer satisfaction and mentoring less

experienced team members

o Creative quick learner with strong analytical, organizational and

interpersonal skills

o Skilled project manager who thrives on timely execution of projects from

planning to implementation

o Competent problem-solver and troubleshooter

Systems Experience and Proficiency:

Hardware Software

Solaris 2.51 - 10 Suncluster 2.2/3.2 TCP/IP

Sunfire M9000/M5000 SVM MS Office

Oracle v880/v890 Symantec VCS Cisco DNCS

Cisco UCS Platform Symantec VxVm SuSE Linux 10.3

Cisco switches and routers Jumpstart

Red Hat Linux

Professional Experience:

Video Engineer III/Sr. Solaris Administrator, Comcast Corporation - Oct.

2014 to April 2015

o Tasked with the upgrade and migration of Cisco head-end Controllers

(DNCS/EC/DTACs) using Cisco's UCS platform and VMware.

o Suggest improvement, implement and discuss redesign of all Time

Warner video systems.

o Troubleshooting experience in deploying & supporting Linux, Oracle

Solaris & VMware virtualization.

o Mentoring of less experienced co-workers on Unix and Linux operating

systems.

Customer Support Engineer, Cisco Systems - April 2012 to Oct. 2014

o Provide advanced level support to large cable providers (Cox, Comcast,

etc) for issues relating to the Cisco DNCS platform and set top boxes.

o A deep understanding of end-to-end video technology and how it affects

our partner's business is required to assist our customers.

o The DNCS runs on Oracle v880/890 with Solaris 10 and SVM for mirroring.

o Interfaced with customers to understand their issues to troubleshoot and

resolve as quickly as possible to minimize end user impact. More

troubling issues are replicated in our labs and resolved.

Sr. Systems Engineer, Giesecke & Devrient - Oct. 2011 - April 2012

o Primarily responsible for the installation of G&Ds solutions to large

wireless Telcos across the Americas.

o Installation of Solaris10, Symantec VCS and Volume Manager suite, Oracle

10g in support of G&Ds customized wireless software solution.

o Post installation support is provided until transition to internal

support team.

Sr. Unix Administrator, Teksystems/HP - Sept 2010 - July 2011

o Member of the build team responsible for server refresh of an excess of

3,000 servers across multiple datacenters. We build, configure and

troubleshoot Solaris (servers and zones), SLES, Red hat and HP servers.

o Installed and configured Sun cluster in support of a custom application.

o Work closely with Oracle DBAs to configure SLES and Solaris to support

Oracle RAC clusters.

Sr. Unix Administrator, Teksystems/Verizon Wireless - February 2010 -

June 2010

o Provide continued high level of support for Alltel customers and systems

acquired by Verizon Wireless.

o Manage several Veritas clusters with storage managed by VxVM and VxFSto

ensure business continuity.

o Collaborate with Oracle DBA's to provide support for production

databases.

o Manage ticket queue and respond to user requests or requests generated

by monitoring tools.

o Perform periodic upgrades and maintenance on systems via change

management process.

Sr. Unix Engineer/Team Lead, Prestige Staffing/AT&T - Feb. 2009 to Feb.

2010

o The day to day operation of the team is my primary responsibility, which

includes work assignments, liaising with application teams and project

planning.

o Our team is self-contained and responsible for administering operating

systems (Solaris, HP-UX and Linux), storage arrays (Hitachi, HP and Sun)

and networking (Cisco switches).

o Executed plan for storage growth by assisting in installing, configuring

and provisioning Hitachi AMS2500 storage array and related performance

and management tools.

o Created new Solaris.

System Administrator III/Infrastructure Team Lead, Sprint Nextel -

January 2007 to Feb. 2009

o As the Veritas/Symantec SME I have responsibility for Architecting,

building and supporting all production and test VCS clusters.

o Work closely with DBAs to install and configure Oracle on stand alone

and clustered systems.

o Perform the full range of Solaris system administration tasks on a daily

basis.

o Work heavily with Veritas volume manager, VxDMP and VxFS, documenting

MOPs for team mates.

o Install MQ series and Websphere in support of the application teams.

Sr. Consultant, Openwave systems Inc. - March 2006 to December 2006

o As a Sr. Consultant I travel throughout the US to deploy and support

Openwave's messaging products.

o Part of a team responsible for migrating approx. 1 million users onto

our voicemail product for a fortune 500 broadband company.

o Integral part of team to successfully deploy and migrate a Texas based

broadband company's customers to our Email product; we met an extremely

aggressive deadline, which included bringing 2 Veritas clusters on

Solaris 10 online.

o My Veritas cluster server, VxVM, VxFS, VxDMP and advanced Solaris

administration skills were relied upon on every project I have been

involved in.

Consultant, IDR Staffing/Fleetcor - December 2005 to March 2006

o Assisted with the daily sysadmin functions, concerning Solaris and Linux

servers.

o Worked closely with DBA to ensure Oracle databases were running

optimally.

o Built Netbackup solution and assisted with its implementation in IBM

datacenter.

Consultant, Intelligent Technologies/Sun Microsystems -- October 2005

to December 2005

o Consulted with a major telecommunications client on the build-out of

multi node Veritas clusters to support a large email platform.

o Assisted with setting up custom jumpstart server to facilitate the

installation of new servers

o Did assessment and gave recommendation on IPMP usage for internet mail

servers

o Installed and configured v890s' for new production mail application

Consultant, BCI staffing/Sun Microsystems -- November 2004 to August 2005

o Involved from inception with bringing Sun's Grid computing offering

online

o Assisted with systems Architecture and implementation planning

o Installed and configured Sun Cluster 3.1 to serve as NFS servers for

diskless clients

o Built Jumpstart server and FLAR image to install Solaris 10 x86 on 256

nodes

o User authentication was done using NIS with a planned LDAP/Kerberos

conversion

o Integral part of team to bring online the first early access version

of the Sun Grid

o Instrumental in building out second data center consisting of 768

Nodes and getting it ready for first large customer test

o Traveled extensively to data centers and provided remote 3rd level

support

o Documented all builds and procedures for junior administrators and new

staff members

Consultant, Prestige Staffing/Harland Company -- August 2004 to November

2004

o Brought in to assist The Harland Corporation with server

infrastructure including obtaining an inventory of all assets

including installed peripherals

o Planned and performed server moves and OS upgrades

o Learned and provided 2nd level support of proprietary applications

o Planned and executed security scan of internet facing systems

o Documented all work for presentation to upper management

Infrastructure Specialist/Unix Administrator -- Electronic Data

Systems/Nextel Communications, Norcross, Georgia -- March 2002 to July

2004

o Played instrumental role in successfully migrating all of Nextel's

production systems to an EDS data center in Charlotte, North Carolina

o Designed, implemented and supported several Veritas clusters servers

o Installed and supported SUN cluster 3.0 production server and also

support cluster 2.2 server

o Administer several VCS clusters running on SunFire as well as Enterprise

servers

o Served as point person on several high-profile projects completed on

time and within budget

o Mentor other administrators in day-to-day tasks and career development

o Extensive experience in SunFire server setup and administration

Senior Unix Administrator, Nextel Communications, Norcross, Georgia --

January 2001 to March 2002

o As part of Nextel's production support team, supported all mission-

critical Solaris systems, including 24x7 on-call rotation

o Lead System Administrator on SunFire server builds and administration

o Architected and built Veritas and Sun cluster high availability

solutions.

o Collaborated closely with DBAs, security, network, and application

support engineers to tune servers to their specifications

o Handled wide range of issues, including hardware troubleshooting and

replacement on a wide range of Sun servers, as well as OS and application

troubleshooting

Senior Unix Engineer, Lodgian Hotels Inc., Atlanta, Georgia -- August 2000

to January 2001

o Served as sole Unix system administrator onsite, overseeing all Solaris

system administration and all related hardware and software

troubleshooting

o Collaborated with DBA to plan and re-structure volumes on both production

and development servers

o Trained Jr. systems administrator in the day-to-day support functions.

Unix System Administrator, Autotrader.com, Atlanta, Georgia -- December

1999 to August 2000

o Played instrumental role in building (jumpstart) all Web and database

servers for company's second hosting location

o Performed daily administration of development and production

environments, such as user accounts, managing processes and system

monitoring

o Manage disaster-recovery planning and implementation

o Assisted network engineers with SUN servers, VLAN configurations, and IP

subnetting issue

Manager, Systems Management, eHatchery, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia -- July 1999

to October 1999

o Manage day-to-day operation of Systems Group.

o Planned build-out of company's production site

o Manage Solaris and Linux servers, Windows NT 4.0 and Exchange server 5.5

administration as well as network administration of Cisco routers,

Extreme and HP switches, and 3Com hubs

o Implemented disaster-recovery plan for both development and production

sites

UNIX System Administrator, Comforce/BellSouth Telecommunications,

Birmingham, Alabama/Chamblee, Georgia -- September 1997 to June 1999

o Served as Unix System administrator on BellSouth's Overture Project

o Performed third-level support for development servers and traveled to

BellSouth locations throughout the Southeast for LAN and server upgrade

project

o Managed Solaris and HP-UX Unix System Administration at project's

Birmingham location

o Installed NT Servers and oversaw day-to-day administration of these

servers

o Managed Tektronix WinDD and network printers

o Created and managed network shares

o Performed user support using SMS to remotely connect to user PCs

o Evaluated new administration utilities, user software, and hardware

Education and Training:

o Intensive coursework in computer engineering technology, Technical

Careers Institute, New York, New York

o Additional vendor training:

VCS server 5.0, April 2008 Veritas Cluster Server, December 2001

Solaris 10 for experienced admins, May HP-UX for experienced system admins,

2008 May 2001

VCS 3.5 administration, June 2004 Legato Networker certified, May 2000

VCS for RAC administration, June 2004 Solaris 2.x Server Administration,

Solaris Security Administration, Sept. February 1999

2003 Solaris 2.x System Administration II,

SUN Cluster 3.0, June 2002 October 1998

SUN Fire administration, June 2002

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